Jones (Belville)
Belville in the parish of Ballyloughloe, county Westmeath, was the home of the Jones family. It was a small estate, in the mid-nineteenth century, confined to the townland of Belville, 242 acres. Gustavus Robert Jones was the son of Gustavus Jones and his wife Susan Margaret Holmes of the Moycashel family. Gustavus R Jones had two sisters who were married to Thomas Elwood of Strandhill, County Mayo and Archdeacon Trench. He married Hester E Butler Bryan. By the mid-1870s he appears to have been living in Cong, county Mayo, the home of the Elwood family, when he was recorded as the owner of 242 acres in county Westmeath. At the time of both the 1901 and 1911 censuses he was described as a widower living at Greaghans in the parish of Hollymount, county Mayo with his two nieces, Alice and Hester Elwood. In the 1870s Gustavus Robert Jones of Galway owned 709 acres in county Tipperary. He was a member of the Jones family of Belville, county Westmeath, see Irish Chancery Reports, Vol 13, page 416. The Jones family of Moate were related to the Belville family (O'Brien). On 12 December 1837 William Jones of the city of London executed a deed with Edward C Browne of Paradise Row, Dublin, to bar the entail on the townland of Jones Lake, (Abstracts of Deeds Inrolled in Chancery 1834-1839, (1840), 115).
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Detailed abstracts of wills of Jones of Tyrawley, Ballinrobe and Rathgranaher in Mayo, of Lisronagh and Lisfenny in Co. Tipperary, of Waterford and Wexford and of Killough, Abbeytreny, Ballymulta, Ballytrasna and Kilnacunnagh in Co. Wicklow, and of Jones, Earls of Ranelagh, 1635-1798. Genealogical Office: Ms.141, pp.170 & 259-85 ; National Library of Ireland
- Maps of the estate of Gustavus R. Jones, situate in the County of Tipperary. By John H. Brophy, C. E., Waterford. Quarto volume water-coloured, 1866. 14 A. 26 ; National Library of Ireland
- Seven deeds re lands in Park, Tullanroe, Ballynahinch and other lands in Co. Offaly. Parties include Company for making Hollow Sword Blades in England, Peter March, of Moyally, Co. Offaly, and William Jones, of Jones' Lake, Co. Westmeath, 1709, 1785, 1810, 1839. D. 18,650 - 18,656; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 164
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 239
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 48 (Belville); Mullingar Union, 83 (Tullaghnageeragh)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 142
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 67 (Belville); 222 (Jones Lake)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 75 (Jones Lake)
Modern printed sources
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': CLESHAM, Brigid. The Elwood family of Co. Mayo. VI, No. 4 (1983), 477-486
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 38, 125